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Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection

The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (JFABC) digital library is an online guide and finding aid for the rich collection of artists’ publications available in Flaxman Library Special Collections. The JFABC brings together close to ten thousand artists’ publications in all formats and media including: books, zines, multiples, video and audio recordings, digital works, periodicals, and other intimate works of art created by artists of local, national, and international significance. Focusing on materials published from the 1960s to the present, it is complemented by collections of reference works and exhibition catalogues to support in-depth research on artists’ publishing.

A three-ring binder of assembled artists' books. "OXBLOOD publishes a range of works from 2 of our 4 current submission categories on an annual-to-semi/annual basis, releasing all the works... Read more

"LOST is a box set of ten photography monographs by ten artists. Each artist choose a city that they have resided or grew up, each monograph gives the viewer a slice of their experience and journ... Read more

"Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago explores the legacies of colonial science in Southeast Asia, asking how to meaningfully re-calibrate the natural histories of the Malay Archipelago in o... Read more

A photobook of repaired household items and found objects done by Ingo Kratisch, accompanied with a DVD of Ingo Kratisch's presentation to students of the Art Institute of Chicago on 21th of July... Read more